Best thing to do is get a copy Art Bergeron's book on Louisiana Confederate Units. It will contain a listing of command and company officers, for both the Confederate Guards Response Battalion, that in late 1863 was blended in to the Consolidated Crescent Regiment. Would suspect you might these names here.

Also, according to Booth's Book (a listing of Louisiana Soldiers) it shows him sick in Richmond in July and August of 1862. Being discharged soon there after. So he may not have been a 'combat effective' soldier, but as a pre-war shoemaker, could help the war effort by making and repairing shoes. Here is what Booth's Book said.

Stakes, Richard, Pvt. Co. C. 8th La. Inf. En. Aug. 13, 1861, Camp Pickens. Present on Rolls to Oct., 1861. Roll Nov. and Dec., 1861, Absent, sick, at Richmond, since Dec. 5, 1861. Roll Jan. 1 to April 31, 1862, Present. Roll March 1 to June 30, 1862, Absent, sick, in Richmond. Roll July and Aug., 1862. Discharged, final statement, and discharged. Born Louisiana, occupation shoemaker, Res. Vermilion, La., age when enlisted 25, single.

Stakes, Richard P., Pvt. Co. B, 16th Battn. La. Inf. (Confed. Grds. Response). En. Sept. 12, 1862, Camp Pratt. Rolls March, 1863, to Aug., 1863, Absent. Detailed in Govt. Shoe Shop, Shreveport, La. Federal Rolls of Prisoners of War, Captured Bayou Contableau, Oct. 22, 1863. Recd. New Orleans, La., Nov. 2, 1863. Forwd. to New Iberia, La., Dec. 21, 1863. Exchanged New Iberia, La., Dec. 22, 1863.

Interesting to read that he seems to drop off the scope and no record, at least in Booth's that he was ever in the Consolidate Crescent Regiment. Please note that Booth's, while it has a lot of information, is lacking is some areas.

JIM T